A Free Ride

1910 ComedyRomance 9 minutes Directed by A. Wise Guy

About A Free Ride

A motorist picks up two women at the roadside and later has sex with them. It is a silent stag film, also called A Grass Sandwich. The director's name on the film is the pseudonym A. Wise Guy. The cast is not named. Scholars usually date it to 1915. The year on this record stays 1910.

Cast & crew

More about A Free Ride

Wikidata times it at 9 minutes and calls it a stag film of about 1915. Some writers place it later than 1915. The place it was shot is not known. New Jersey has been suggested. One account of the cast says the players were of low social standing, and another says the opposite. The Kinsey Institute holds a print. It was shown at the opening of the Museum of Sex. In 2004 Lisa Oppenheim remade it. A Commons file is labeled 1915.

Themes

  • A ride from the roadside
  • Sex in a stag reel
  • An unsigned cast
  • stag film
  • motorist
  • A Grass Sandwich
  • Kinsey
  • A. Wise Guy

Preservation

The Kinsey Institute holds a print. A copy labeled 1915 is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • A Grass Sandwich is the other title.
  • A. Wise Guy is a pseudonym, not a documented person.
  • The Kinsey print is the archive copy named in the English Wikipedia.

Scenes

  • The driver stops for two women, and the rest of the reel is the sex that follows.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (A Free Ride)